Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: valid xhtml and chunking

[Dan York <dyork@e-smith.com>]

Colin,

> Against the Transitional DTD, the only problem I found was that the
> validator complains about missing the alt attribute from img tags. I
> have come up against this problem myself when writing stylesheets, and
> got round it by coding alt=" " on every img tag.

Are you using a <textobject> in your <mediaobject> for images?
If you *are*, you should get ALT attributes without any problem.

I code my images as:

    <mediaobject>
    <imageobject>
      <imagedata fileref="foo.eps" format="EPS">
    </imageobject>
    <imageobject>
      <imagedata fileref="foo.jpg" format="JPG">
    </imageobject>
    <textobject>
      <phrase>This is the alt text.</phrase>
    </textobject>
    </mediaobject>

Works fine for me and the ALT tags are good.

Regards,
Dan

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